Kishore Kumar Mandal, J.

Heard the Counsel for the petitioner and the State.

2. Parties have exchanged the pleadings.

3. I.A. No. 6846 of 2016 has been filed by the son of the petitioner for being impleaded as the co-petitioner as the cause was raised by his father on behalf of the petitioner on whose instance the application for settlement of government waste land was forwarded by the authorities of the General Reserve Engineering Force where after Settlement Case No. 06/2002-03 was initiated.

4. Having heard the parties, the said application is allowed.

5. Heard.

6. The petitioner has called in question the order dated 14.07.2008 passed by the Sub-Divisional Officer, Saharsa in Settlement Case No. 06/2002-03 whereby the claim of the petitioner for settlement of government waste land appertaining to Khesra no. 798 (0.93 decimals) and Khesra no. 799 (0.13 decimals) as well as Khesra no. 787 (2.15 decimals) situated in mauza Jajauri in the district of Saharsa was rejected after having found that there was no acceptable resolution of the Gram Sabha. The authority also noted in the said order that the land appertaining to Khesra no. 798 and 799 was recorded in the Record of Rights